No complexity–stability relationship in empirical ecosystems

A long-standing ecological hypothesis is that complexity should decrease stability in food webs. Here, Jacquet and colleagues analyse over 100 real-world food webs and show that complexity does not decrease stability, but that a high frequency of weak species interactions stabilizes complex food web...

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Autores principales: Claire Jacquet, Charlotte Moritz, Lyne Morissette, Pierre Legagneux, François Massol, Philippe Archambault, Dominique Gravel
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4bb6cdb4b24e47c9868d233d30cca3ea
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Sumario:A long-standing ecological hypothesis is that complexity should decrease stability in food webs. Here, Jacquet and colleagues analyse over 100 real-world food webs and show that complexity does not decrease stability, but that a high frequency of weak species interactions stabilizes complex food webs.